02 January 2016

What to do with the art you steal

"When you look at the world this way, there's no longer good art or bad art, there's just art worth stealing and art that isn't. And everything in the world is up for grabs - if you don't find anything worth stealing today, you might find it worth stealing tomorrow, or the month after that, or years later." Austin Kleon in a TED talk (here).

"Bad poets take what they steal and deface it, but the good poets turn it into something better or at least something different" said TS Eliot.

"Imitation is not flattery - it's transformation that is flattery, taking the things you've stolen and turning it into your own thing." (Kleon again.)

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Tuesday is Drawing Day - why not join in, wherever you are, any or every Tuesday? Find somewhere that has interesting things - it needn't be a museum, it could be your own home! - and just draw, using whatever media you want. Ask some friends to join you, then have a nice lunch.

The London group has grown to the point where it's getting difficult to find a cafe table large enough, and reluctantly I must say that it is no longer open to new members.

7 May - V&A, medieval galleries

14 May - Horniman (gardens?)

21 May - Wallace Collection

28 May - Southwark Cathedral

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I had work in "A Letter in Mind" at the Oxo Gallery, September 2017 and again in 2018.